📚 Books

Author Marie Kondo Genres Self Help Rating 💖💖💖💖💖 Date Finished 24/08/2024 🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences Start by discarding by category. Then organize. Organization gives the illusion that the clutter problem has been solved. Tidying is not the goal. Tidying is a special event. Don’t do it every day. 🎨 Impressions I love this book. I think “The life-changing magic of tidying up” and “Goodbye, Things: On Minimalist Living” are the only books on minimalism worth reading (from a practical point)....

Author Jason Schreier Genres Business Rating 💖💖💖💖🖤 Date Finished ~2024 🎨 Impressions The book contains a few stories about indie game developer and a few stories about big game studios. I found the indie stories more interesenting and relatable since they are closer to my situation. How I Discovered It Looking for books about indie developers. Who Should Read It? Everyone interestend in how games are developed from a hollistic rather than technical point of view....

Author Sönke Ahrens Genres Productivity Rating 💖💖💖💖🖤 Date Finished ~07/024 🎨 Impressions This review is shorter than usual because I think that I’m not the right target for this book. People who write a lot (and thus read a lot for research and reference) will benefit much more from implementing it’s contents. I was able to benefit from some of the techniques nonetheless. How I Discovered It Can’t remember....

Author David Kushner Genres History Rating 💖💖💖💖🖤 Date Finished ~07/2024 🎨 Impressions This review is shorter than usual because this is not the kind of books I usually read, and I don’t have anything worth saying. As a reader I don’t have any positive or negative to say about the book (being that it’s just a recollection of historical facts). But as an aspiring Indie Game Developer I think there is value in knowing how games were made in the old days and how their development evolved through the years....

Author David Allen Genres Self Help, Productivity Rating 💖💖💖💖💖 Date Finished 15/07/2024 🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences Focus on what to do next and don’t think about the rest. What’s the next action? Make it up and make it happen 🎨 Impressions I think it’s a good book that collates all the emergent productivity hacks each one of use uses, but it merges them into a coherent system. The system in itself is very simple and could be explained in a few pages, so I think the book could have been at least 50 pages shorter especially considering that the people who need it the most might not find the time to read all of it....